The Best of R.E.M.

Infobox Album
Name = The Best of R.E.M.
Type = Compilation album
Artist = R.E.M.


Released = September 30, 1991
Recorded = Unknown
Genre = Alternative rock
Length =
Label = I.R.S. Records
Producer =
Last album = "Out of Time" (1991)
This album = "The Best of R.E.M." (1991)
Next album = "Automatic for the People" (1992)

"The Best of R.E.M." was a greatest hits album by R.E.M. released in 1991, shortly after the success of the band's previous Warner Bros. album, "Out of Time". "The Best of R.E.M.", however, was released by the band's previous record label, I.R.S. Records, as was a few more "special edition" versions of their other albums including bonus tracks.

This record was only issued in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia, complete with liner notes from "Remarks: The Story of R.E.M." by Tony Fletcher. It had no alternate mixes (unlike the other compilation album "Eponymous"), as all the songs were the versions found on the previous albums.

Three songs were taken from each of the five studio albums and one song was taken from "Chronic Town", the band's first EP. Thus there were sixteen songs on this album.

Because it was issued out-of-contract, this album is generally not considered to be part of R.E.M.'s official discography.

Track listing

# "Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)" (3:51)
# "Radio Free Europe" (4:03)
# "Perfect Circle" (3:23)
# "Talk About the Passion" (3:22)
# "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" (3:11)
# "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville" (4:34)
# "Pretty Persuasion" (3:53)
# "Green Grow The Rushes" (3:42)
# "Cant Get There From Here" (4:10)
# "Driver 8" (3:18)
# "Fall on Me" (2:49)
# "I Believe" (3:32)
# "Cuyahoga" (4:17)
# "The One I Love" (3:17)
# "Finest Worksong" (3:48)
# "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" (4:07)

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